Curt Doolittle

Theme: Measurement

  • Lie. Presupposes omniscience, confuses cost and value. Cost is created by organi

    Lie. Presupposes omniscience, confuses cost and value. Cost is created by organization and transformation. Voluntary Trade determines +/-.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 16:49:23 UTC

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  • PROFIT, COST, VALUE, AND THE ONLY REASON NOT TO PREY UPON YOU. I simply state: P

    PROFIT, COST, VALUE, AND THE ONLY REASON NOT TO PREY UPON YOU.

    I simply state: Profit: an objective MEASUREMENT made profitable by the commensurability provided by money and prices.

    I simply state science: Cost: an objective decline in the volume of some form of capital (including time).

    I simply state science: Value: a subjective experience we can only observe via DEMONSTRATE action: participation in voluntary exchange.

    The only way any ‘social’ or ‘common’ property CAN exist is by consent of those capable of defending it from competitors.

    The only reason to engage in consent is that it is more rewarding to engage in such consent than it is to engage in predation or parasitism.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-24 13:31:00 UTC

  • Names, Verbs, Adverbs, Sentences, Analogies, Parables, Algorithms, Logic, and Ma

    Names, Verbs, Adverbs, Sentences, Analogies, Parables, Algorithms, Logic, and Mathematics are just special cases of measurement, each of which decreases the number of dependent variables we seek to measure and communicate.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-21 10:58:00 UTC

  • We have logic backwards. All language consists of measurements. Understood from

    We have logic backwards. All language consists of measurements. Understood from this starting point, all disciplines are particular cases of the consequences of measurement with symbolic tools of variable precision.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-21 10:55:00 UTC

  • Every minute: Facebook users share 2,460,000 pieces of content Email users send

    Every minute:

    Facebook users share 2,460,000 pieces of content

    Email users send 204,000,000 messages

    Google receives over 4,000,000 search queries

    Whats App users share 347,222 photos

    Twitter users tweet 277,000 times

    Instagram users post 216,000 new photos

    Apple users download 48,000 apps

    Yelp users post 26,380 reviews

    Skype users connect for 23,300 hours

    Vine users share 8,333 videos

    Pinterest users pin 3,472 images

    Blog writers post 1400 new blog posts

    Youtube users upload 72 hours of new video

    Amazon makes $83,000 in online sales

    (The only number that surprises me is amazon, which seems low….)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-09 13:17:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) (a) we can possess narratives (not recipes, or measurements) th

    … (from elsewhere)

    (a) we can possess narratives (not recipes, or measurements) that describe causal relations that manufacture ignorance

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    (b) AFAIK the meaning of this statement is that there is a difference between the unknown proper, the incorrect, and the correspondent and consistent.

    (c) Set operations are limited in utility. Empirical analysis allows us to search for possible operations (first causes). And so it is operations not set statements that provide information lacking in set statements. This is why the linguistic century has been a waste of time. A puzzle not a problem. We like set statements because they’re cheap. We like apriori arguments because they’re cheap. But both constitute special cases. The universe at all scales consists of a set of constant operations (transformations). And doubling-down, on sets, is no different from doubling down on religion, is no different from doubling down on empiricism: when instead we need additional information eliminating greater fields of error, by increasing the tool set we are using, rather than attempting to use a more primitive tool (analogy, reason, rationalism, set operations, empirical measurement, possible operations) to provide information unavailable to that tool set.

    (d) Ergo, I view each method from the the analogy, to syllogism all the way to the formula, then to the algorithm as methods of ignorance expansion when we attempt to apply them to questions requiring greater precision than the method permits.

    (e) instead, we can use each method as a means of assisting us in free association by which we generate hypotheses that can be tested by the next method of greater precision, and with each increase in information provided by each increase in precision we can form continuous new free associations until at some point we have found the first causes (operations) that are possible.

    (f) Ergo, I don’t think too much of philosophy or philosophers, when what they mean by that is ‘application of rational techniques’ rather than application of ALL techniques.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-09 10:40:00 UTC

  • Testimonialism is just very RIGOROUS. We use words to communicate measurements,

    Testimonialism is just very RIGOROUS. We use words to communicate measurements, not just meanings. You can say something meaningful that is not truthful, but it is very hard to say something both meaningful and truthful that consists entirely of measurements that themselves are not false.

    All language can be restated as measurement.

    This is frightening for those who wish to lie.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-07 15:11:00 UTC

  • Commensurability

    MEASUREMENTS RENDER COMMENSURABILITY 1) Numbers render countable objects commensurable 2) Measurements render relations commensurable 3) Physics renders physical causes commensurable. 4) Money renders goods and services commensurable 5) Property renders cooperation (ethics, morals, politics) commensurable 6) Reason renders words and concepts commensurable.

  • Commensurability

    MEASUREMENTS RENDER COMMENSURABILITY 1) Numbers render countable objects commensurable 2) Measurements render relations commensurable 3) Physics renders physical causes commensurable. 4) Money renders goods and services commensurable 5) Property renders cooperation (ethics, morals, politics) commensurable 6) Reason renders words and concepts commensurable.

  • More “What’s Wrong With the Keynesian World?”

      Deficit spending on infrastructure that produces returns, and is somehow quantifiable, doesn’t seem to be a problem. I don’t see a problem borrowing against the future for the purposes of production (capital increases). In fact, history is very optimistic about both research investment, infrastructure investment, export market investment, and trade route investment (including conquest). It’s just very pessimistic about funding rents, subsidies, and vote-bribes. OTOH, Destruction of intergenerational lending, is informationally destructive. Distortion of the interest rate is informationally destructive. Flooding the economy with money is informationally destructive. And cumulatively that destruction appears to be more than even the combination of innovation and productivity can compensate for, even in a period of gold rush created by the technology booms. I mean, if it isn’t working from 1990 to the present, it’s not going to work in more common periods. Interest is necessary for the purposes of measurement, and to make use of information by those with demonstrated ability to make judgements. I don’t understand why we pay interest on borrowing from ourselves (the treasury). I don’t understand why we care about our status as a reserve currency except as a means of financing the military empire. And I no longer see much advantage to the preservation of the empire (power projection), only our defense of territory and trade. In fact, the empire has dominated our domestic policy for a century now. Lets take it further: I would see no problem in distributing liquidity (dilution of the money supply) if distributed annually or quarterly to consumers on debit cards – other than the moral hazard it would create. This causes industry to fight for consumer dollars, and gives consumers the option to consume or reduce debt. Right now the distortion by financialization (gambling) rather than capitalization is so …. vast … no one has any idea how to measure it. Other than we can see that ‘something isn’t right here’ and we cant find a target that will correct whatever is wrong. (productivity). Targets are pretty simple really: how many hours to the 66% of people on either side of the median have to work to pay for all non-signal private goods? As far as I know, all interest on consumption of non-signal private goods is money lost from the treasury and capital-producing industry. And that looks like trillions to me.